Attaching device for stoves



S. W. PALMER.

ATTACHING DEVICE FOR S TOVES. APPLICATION FILED JAN-11,1921.

1,413,992. Patented Apr. 25, 1922.

vwcnfoz 1 4 A'Z QM elm/magsp STANLEY W. PALMER, OF BEAVER DAM, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO-1SILAS IiT'GOIhURE,

' OF BEAVER DAM, WISCONSIN. g r

Application filed January 11, 19 21.

I 1 all whom it may concern a citizen of the Beaver Dam, in the county of Dodge, State Be it known that I, STANLEY WV; PALMER, United States, residing at ofl yiscoiisin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attaching Devices holding bracket in two rivet ends for Stoves; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. 1 The object of the present invention is to )rovide im )roved means for detachabl sei curing to the edge of a stove or range the bar commonly used to serve as a protection to the user of the stove Such protecting bars are ordinarily removed during the shipment of the range, partly to economize in space, and partly to avoid breakage. F or this reason the brackets by which the rail is top cannot be riveted to the factory the stove has been shipped to its destination. When the brackets are made in one piece, as is usual, the holes in the top frame of the stove or range are counter-sunk to receive the boltheads, and it requires closer work than is usually applied in the art of stovemaking to have the bolthead flush with the top. Inconsequence, the bolt-heads either project above the. top surface of the front frame or are sunken below the surface. As it requires two bolts to each bracket this makes four unsightly places at the front edge of the stove top. Another fault with secured to the range the top frame at this manner of attachment is the tendencyof the nuts to work loose and leave the brackets wobbly. The third fault is the difficulty of threading eachbolt into its nut, for the bolt is handled from above with a screw driver and the nut is underneath the frame where it cannot be seen and where its manipulation is difficult.

. The improvement of the present invention resides particularly in making the railparts, one part, in the form of a lug being riveted to the stove top frame (insteadof being bolted). The are round down and polished off while the frame is being finished and the top is thus made clean and free from. boltheads. There is no danger that the lug will work loose. To this lug is bolted the other Snecification of Letters Patent.

but must be put in place afterbracket and has an "ATTACHING DEVICE FOR STOVES'.

Serial No. 436,405.

part of the bracket. The face of the lug and the face of the bracket are ribbed to 'fitfone into the other, thus making a rigid connec tion, and the two parts are detachably se cured together by a'bolt which preferably is threaded directly into the stationary lug. In the accompanying drawings, Fig 1 is a perspective view of a part of a stove embodying-the improved attaching device; Fig. 'Qis an elevation partly in section of the attaching device secured to the stove'top; Fig.3 is a view of the bottom of the attaching device shown in Fig. 2.

The stove, of which trated in Fig. l, hasthe usual top frame 10 offset at 11 to receive the lids or At the front of the 10 terminates as usual in a depending or downwardly extending flange 13.

A pair of lugs 14 are permanently secured to the under surface of top frame 10 and just back of flange 13 by means of rivets 15.

griddles l2. stove or range the frame Patented Apia 25, 1%)22.

a fragment is illusand the tops ofthe-rivets are smoothed off and polished with the smoothing and polishing of the top so that neither ance nor the utility of the flat of the stove is impaired'and no or depressions appear along the top. j c

' Each lug 14 forms one part of a two-part inclined face 16 to which the appeartop surface projections edge of the the other part 17 of thebracket is attached.

Part 17 is recessed at 18 to overlap the lug and thus increase the rigidity of the joint,

and the two partsare detachably securedtogether by means of a bolt 19 preferably without a nut but threaded directly into the inclined portion of the lug l4.

Bracket 17 is sector-shaped and extends around the lower edge of flange 13 andterminates in a socket 20 at about the level of the top of frame 10. Abar 21 is held by sockets 20 in position along the edge of the stove or range to keep the clothing of the user out of contact with the hot; and sometimes dirty top of the stove.

. With the construction above described, there are no projecting bolt-heads or dir accumulating recesses along the stove top near its front edge, top has asmooth finished surface. The two part brackets afford rigid support tothe bar and do not permit the bar to work loose but, on the contrary, the

during norniai use or the stove. lf urtherto the under-side oithe stove top, substan- 25 more, tl'ie bar can be quickly and easily detially as chescr'ibed. tached from the range to lessen breakage in 4:. The combination with a stove top and shipment, or to permit the range to be carat protecting bar, of brackets for attaching 5 ried through a narrow doorway. said bar to said top, each bracket being in I claim two parts, one part oi which is permanently o 1. The combination with a stove top and riveted to the under-side of said top and a protecting bar, of a two-part bracket, one has an inclined face, and the other part of part of which is permanently riveted to the Which is recessed to engage said inclined o stove top behind the front flange, substan face, and a bolt passing through one of said tially as described. parts and threaded into the other to perniit 5 2, The combination with stove top and removal Or said bar ire-in said stove top a protecting bar, or two-part bracket for when desired. securing one end of said bar to said stove 5. In stove and range construction, the 5 top, said bracket being in two parts, one combination with the top liiaving a depend of which is permanently riveted to the stove ing flange, and the protecting baryoi a two 0 top, and is detachably bolted to the other part bracket for securing the bar to the top, p to -va-bly hold said rail in position: the bracket comprising a part rigid with the 3. The combination with a stove top and bar and a part rigid with the top and uraprotecting bar, of a supporting bracket-at ranged beneath the flange, and a releasable each end or said bar, each of said brackets connection between the parts of each 45 being in tWo parts titted and bolted together bracket. 7 v to afi'ord a rigid but detachable connection, In testimony whereof I a flix my signature. one ct said parts being permanently riveted STANLEY W. PALMER. 

